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2020 Arons Poet: Layli Long Soldier

Uptown Campus
Online

Please join us for an evening with the 2020 Arons Visiting Poet, Layli Long Soldier. 

To register: 

https://tulane.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_w0z1vejHRo-xEAs6xZv--A

Layli Long Soldier holds a B.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an M.F.A. from Bard College. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The New York Times, The American Poet, The American Reader, The Kenyon Review Online, BOMB and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an NACF National Artist Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. She has also received the 2018 PEN/Jean Stein Award and the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of Chromosomory (Q Avenue Press, 2010) and WHEREAS (Graywolf Press, 2017). She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Florie Gale Arons graduated from Newcomb College in 1950. Her daughters established the poetry program in 1999 in honor of her 70thbirthday. It continues today in her memory. Mrs. Arons’ posthumously published collection, Unspoken Words, is available at the Newcomb Institute.

For more information, contact lwolford@tulane.edu

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